Recaps

After Ren defeated Kumogakure and secured Yaonai’s return, he confronted Konoha’s leadership over the kidnapping and exposed Danzo’s crimes. Ren invoked an old founding covenant to impeach Hiruzen, who admitted his compromises had enabled Danzo’s rise.

• Shisui gave Hiruzen three days to return Yaonai, and Hiruzen learned that Danzo had arranged her abduction through Kumogakure.
• Ren and the Uchiha Shrine fought Raikage A and Killer B, and Fugaku’s reinforcements helped Ren defeat them and force Kumogakure’s surrender.
• Danzo’s Root agents recovered Yaonai, while Ren presented Kumogakure’s treaty and demanded reparations and privileges for the Uchiha.
• Ren confronted Konoha’s leaders over Yaonai’s kidnapping and other security failures, then exposed Danzo’s stolen Sharingan and Hashirama’s Cells.
• Hiruzen dismissed Danzo and ordered his arrest, but Ren subdued him, seized Kagami Uchiha’s Sharingan, and declared that the Uchiha Military Police Force would interrogate him.
• Ren invoked an authenticated founding covenant to propose impeaching Hiruzen, arguing that the Hokage’s failures had harmed Konoha and pushed the Uchiha toward rebellion.
• Ren formally impeached Hiruzen, who admitted that he had empowered Danzo and used Root to strengthen the Hokage’s position.

Ren forced Hiruzen from power, dismantled Root, and secured Konoha’s acceptance of Tsunade as Fifth Hokage while the Uchiha expanded their influence through trade and cultivation. He left the arc building a clan-wide deterrent and preparing to guard the Uchiha’s core fighters against betrayal.

• Ren exposed Hiruzen’s failures and Danzo’s abuses, won the clans’ support for Hiruzen’s removal, and ordered Root disbanded and investigated.
• After Kumogakure surrendered and agreed to pay reparations, Ren refused the Hokage position and told Shikaku that the Uchiha would pursue power through trade and influence.
• Inoichi and Jiraiya brought Tsunade back to Konoha, where she learned of Ren’s victory and agreed to consider becoming Hokage.
• Ren advanced his cultivation techniques and proposed Super Amazing City, securing Tsunade’s cooperation in exchange for trade access and limited Uchiha support on Konoha missions.
• Tsunade presented Ren’s plan to Konoha’s leaders, who debated its benefits and the influence it would give the Uchiha.
• Ren argued with Mabui and Samui that the Uchiha could deter wars through collective strength, wealth, trade, intelligence, and resources, and they pledged themselves to his clan.
• Ren gave Mabui and Samui the Uchiha surname, then revealed Kagami Uchiha’s Mangekyo eye and announced plans to use cultivation methods and Assimilation Hypnosis to protect the clan’s core fighters.

Ren built up the Uchiha through new training methods and launched Super Amazing City, while Obito sent rogue ninja to provoke him. The attack on Kakashi ended with Ren defeating Sasori’s Iron Sand assault and sealing Kakashi’s Sharingan against removal.

• Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage and announced that the Uchiha would fund Super Amazing City, with Mabui overseeing the project and impressing Konoha’s officials with her plans.
• Ren gathered the Uchiha at Naka Shrine, honored their fallen, and pledged to lead the clan toward dominance before introducing the Tiger-Leopard Thunderclap Body-Tempering Technique and the Great River Qi Refinement Method.
• Ren made the first three stages of the Great River Qi Refinement Method available to qualified Uchiha and used the Contract Ghost-Faced Yama Technique to seal practitioners against revealing it.
• Pain ordered the Akatsuki not to act against Ren, but Obito maneuvered Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and Sasori into attacking Konoha to make Ren use his Mangekyo repeatedly.
• Ren replaced the original Super Amazing City plan with a five-billion-ryo reinforced-concrete project, and Mabui organized construction as workers and merchants arrived in Konoha.
• Kakashi followed Orochimaru, Sasori, and Kakuzu through Konoha, then fought Sasori’s Third Kazekage Human Puppet and was poisoned by its Iron Sand.
• Ren arrived, took control of Sasori’s Iron Sand, and used the Super Electromagnetic Cannon to blast Sasori and destroy much of the puppet.
• Ren recognized Kakashi’s Sharingan as Obito’s eye and placed a Cursed Seal on Kakashi’s brow, suppressing the eye and causing it to destroy itself if anyone tried to remove it.

Ren defeated Sasori’s puppet assault and faced Orochimaru’s reincarnated Kage, then transported them to the Valley of the End to challenge Hashirama at full strength. Hashirama entered Sage Mode and unleashed the True Several Thousand Hands as Ren prepared a counterattack with thousands of blades.

• Ren countered Sasori’s Performance of a Hundred Puppets with Iron Sand, disabled Sasori by controlling his body, and forced Kakashi and the arriving Konoha shinobi to witness his strength.
• Orochimaru summoned Hashirama, Tobirama, the Third Kazekage, and Hozuki Gengetsu with Impure World Reincarnation, while Obito and Black Zetsu recognized Ren as a growing threat.
• Ren asked Orochimaru to let Hashirama retain his consciousness and challenged him to a fair fight, then used the Heavenly Transfer Technique to move the fighters to the Valley of the End.
• Hashirama accepted Ren’s challenge, and Ren’s Idaten-enhanced strikes shattered the Wood Golem and destroyed a Wood Dragon.
• Hashirama filled the valley with trees and vines, but Ren fought back with his Third-Form Susanoo, Coiling Dragon Bow, Spiral Sword, and Iron Sand.
• Ren expanded his Susanoo to its Complete Body form and blew away Hashirama’s pollen as the two prepared to use their full strength.
• Hashirama entered Sage Mode and summoned the Wood Buddha’s True Several Thousand Hands, while Ren split the Spiral Sword into thousands of blades to meet the oncoming fists.